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jmowreader

(52,558 posts)
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:57 PM Jun 30

Sheriff: Suspected shooter ambushed firefighters who asked him to move vehicle

Source: Coeur d'Alene Press

COEUR d’ALENE — The man suspected of ambushing firefighters who responded to a blaze he set on Canfield Mountain, fatally shooting two and seriously wounding a third, did so after firefighters asked him to move his vehicle, authorities said Monday.

The first responders who rushed to a grass fire on the east side of Canfield Mountain around 1:30 p.m. Sunday quickly found themselves under attack from a gunman who shot from a tree, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities confirmed Monday that battalion chief John Morrison of the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department and battalion chief Frank Harwood of Kootenai County Fire and Rescue were fatally shot in Sunday’s attack.

Dave Tysdal, an engineer with the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department, was wounded and remains in critical condition.



Read more: https://cdapress.com/news/2025/jun/30/suspect-ambushed-firefighters-move-vehicle/



Sheriff Bob Norris says that so far no manifesto has been discovered. Right now they have no idea why he did this.
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Sheriff: Suspected shooter ambushed firefighters who asked him to move vehicle (Original Post) jmowreader Jun 30 OP
He saved the State the trouble. Joinfortmill Jun 30 #1
It gets weirder and weirder. C Moon Jun 30 #2
Arson then murder of firemen, going with NUTS! or Revenge! Brainfodder Jun 30 #3
Maybe Katcat Jun 30 #4
That is the working hypothesis and allegation WheelWalker Jun 30 #8
Illegal Immigrant or MAGA loon? What's the over/under? Maine-i-ac Jun 30 #5
HMMMM. . .Mummy and stepdad are magats. . . niyad Jun 30 #7
As were 67% of the voters in Idaho. Gimpyknee Jun 30 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author Wiz Imp Jun 30 #11
Because he owns a gun swong19104 Jun 30 #6
We don't know for sure yet, but odds are, he's a Trumper. Fil1957 Jun 30 #9
He was a disturbed twenty-year-old. John1956PA Jun 30 #10

Brainfodder

(7,554 posts)
3. Arson then murder of firemen, going with NUTS! or Revenge!
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:06 PM
Jun 30

What else?
OK, he just woke up and felt like it, sorry that falls under NUTS!

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John1956PA

(4,317 posts)
10. He was a disturbed twenty-year-old.
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 10:47 PM
Jun 30

I am just guessing, but I do not think he had any definitive political ideology as to conservative versus progressive matters. I do not think he had a political cult mindset devoted to Trumpism. I think he was just a lost twenty-year-old who had been living in his truck for a year and who had a background with firearms courtesy of his parents.

However, the Putin-financed propaganda machine has been going at it since this morning with the lie that he was a violent liberal who rebeled against his loving, wholesome MAGA parents and was radicalized by leftist propaganda. Of course, that lie is ridiculous, but it is the type of lie which the MAGAs eat up and repeat.

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